I send a semi-daily email delivering insights into leadership in exponential times. For entrepreneurs, corporate irritants and change makers. Raw, unfiltered and opinionated. It is called The Heretic and here is the dispatch from 2013-04-10:

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GIVE YOURSELF SOME CREDIT

You know that entrepreneur who downplays her startup by telling you that it’s really small and has no funding? I meet her all the time.

Give yourself some credit.

Even if you don’t have any investment in your company; even if haven’t incorporated; even if what you’re doing is that little thing on the side — you invest(ed) time and effort. And that’s worth something.

You could have spent the time working on something which pays a salary. You could have spent the time drinking beer with your friends. And instead you chose to work on your thing.